Four photographs: Moss Cushion with Rowanberries, The Place of the Rowanberries, Red Beech with Rowanberries, Eiche Flügelnuss and Grüne Schlange
(exists as art photographs in TICKONS' depot)
Like Andy Goldsworthy (see his "Five Photographs"), German Nils-Udo's works are also about drawing with flowers, writing with water, painting with clouds... registering a breeze or bending the wind, smoothing the water or combining light, color, smell – which is precisely the sensation that visitors to TICKON get on a walk through the park (as opposed to a museum visit, where the light is human-determined and the smell non-existent).
For Nils-Udo, it is essential to open the space in nature with the least possible intervention, but of course this is contradictory. Because although he prepares his 'disturbances' as gently as possible, he affects, in his own words, "the virginity of nature".
The five photographs are intended as a kind of break. Here you can reflect on the plants' apparent immortality, while in reality the work is long gone, blown or rained away, withered, formed.
In TICKON, he used the red rowan berries and the delicate green wing walnut to paint with: A moss cushion with a thick red 'cushion cover' of red rowan berries ("Moss Cushion with Rowanberries"), where he found rowan berries, he constructed mysterious red characters in the deep green moss ("The Place of the Rowanberries"), a red beech almost drew Langeland's silhouette with rowanberries in a bark wound - was it by chance or not? (“Red Beech with Rowanberries”). An oak trunk had its structure made clear with green wingnut stripes between the rough, barked, grey-brown (Eiche Flügelnuss”), while in the last photo the wingnut formed a green chain, a spiral shape that emerged like a snake from a hole – or disappeared down there? (“Green Snake”).
Artist: Nils-Udo / See more of Nils-Udo's work here.
Year: 1993
Nils-Udo, born in Bavaria 1937. Has since 1972 worked with and with nature around the world – In many European countries, In Japan, Israel, the USA and the Indian Ocean.